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Thursday 19 January 2006, 09:56 by tomascermak
Silver road
Silver road

The caption on the traffic sign says "Silver road". Written in Japanese it should be "Gin no michi", but there is written "shirubaa roodo". Yes, it comes from English. Because it does not mean "road made from silver", but the road where old people often walk. And why silver? Because Japanese call gray hair "silver". (The bottom sign explain it in "real" Japanese)